Hillspeed's Kieran Vernon has claimed a maiden F4 win in today's
final Winter Championship race, but Matty Graham is confirmed as
the F4 Winter Champion with a sixth place finish.

Vernon made a great start to take the lead at turn one, passing
pole sitter Sennan Fielding, and then held off a race-long
challenge from Pietro Fittipaldi to claim his first F4 victory.

Fittipaldi finished just under a second away from Vernon, while
HHC Motorsport's Sennan Fielding claimed third, and third
overall in the championship standings. Jake Cook's fourth
place finish for Hillspeed was good enough to secure second
overall in the standings.

Will Palmer drove an excellent race to climb from 10th on the
grid to take fifth in the race, and in the championship standings,
while Graham's sixth place confirmed him as the Winter
Champion.

17 year old Graham simply needed to finish the race to be
assured of the title. He started fourth but was pushed down
the order on the first lap. Needing to drive safely to take the
crown, he still launched an audacious move around the outside of
Falco Wauer at Druids on lap 13, following Palmer who had also
passed the Norwegian earlier. Graham then kept a decent gap to
claim sixth and take the crown.

Wauer was left to claim seventh for Enigma Motorsport, and
finishes fourth in the championship. Matteo Ferrer
finished eighth in the race having started 11th, with Fredrik
Johansen completing his Winter campaign with ninth in the race and
eighth overall in the standings. Dimitris Papanastasiou completed
the top 10 in the race for Hillspeed and finishes ninth overall in
the standings.

At the front Vernon was still holding off Fittipaldi, with the
gap as low as 0.3s at one point. The ex-Formula Palmer Audi and
Formula Renault BARC racer kept his cool though, and is classified
seventh overall in the standings despite missing the first round at
Snetterton.

"It's been a great weekend and it's ended perfectly"
race winner Vernon enthused afterwards. The weekend
has got better and better and I wasn't expecting three podiums
to be honest. I'm Over the moon, I haven't won since 2011 and
I'm chuffed to bits. Thanks to Hillspeed for getting me to
grips with the car. Pietro pushed me hard and caught me quick and
it took me a while to find my pace, but I knew if I held my line
he'd find it hard to pass."

Winter Champion Matty Graham enthused afterwards: "It's an
amazing feeling. We've worked hard and Douglas Motorsport have done
an excellent job. There was a bit of pressure coming into the
series as I was touted as a favourite but I've done what I came
here to do and I'm very happy with myself. Hopefully we can use
this as a springboard to Europe next season!"